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Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
Sep 26, 2025
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.
Very successful people say no to almost everything.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth and success in business are deceptive. If we die tomorrow they will disappear tomorrow, and nothing will be left for our future. Wisdom, however, will never deceive us.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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